Books, Memoirs, Films, and Media

Books, Memoirs, Films, and Media

Eddie Randle Shares His Story

MORE FOOD...FOR THOUGHT – Sept. 29, 2023 - On paper, my life seemed together. My career was progressing, and I convinced myself I was happy. That lie shattered in a crash I will never forget. People ask me why I am s... Read More...

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Governor and First Lady Highlight Progress at Recovery Reinvented

IT HAPPENS TO ANY OF US – Oct. 5, 2023 - “Recovery is a gift. It’s a gift that has lasting impact and acts as a force multiplier for people who are surrounded by a person who finds recovery,” the governor said... Read More...

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Combating Addiction in California With Gov. Gavin Newsom

AUDIO – START MAKING SENSE – Oct. 3, 2023 - As a state legislator and a lifelong Sacramentan, I see the challenges our communities are facing, and it’s clear to me that we need to be doing things differently. It’s ti... Read More...

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The War on Drugs Didn’t Work. How Do We Address Fentanyl Crisis?

GUESS WORK? – Sept. 28, 2023 - In other words, our colleagues want to fight the opioid crisis by continuing the same war on drugs — a war that for decades has destroyed the very communities it intended to help... Read More...

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Ozempic Burned Off My Genitals

CAVEAT EMPTOR – Oct. 4, 2023 - At one point, she feared she would die from the excruciating pain from the medication — often called a “miracle” drug for its weight-shedding properties, despite being created to... Read More...

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Addicted, Homeless and Running from the Cops: How High-Flying Event Planner Hid Out at the Waldorf Astoria

VIDEO – RICHES TO RAGS TO THE STEPS – Sept. 30, 2023 - “I was headed downhill fast. If the judge hadn’t sent me to Rikers I might not be alive,” Norman told The Post. Born in Oregon, he was living his dre... Read More...

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Actress Jodie Sweetin Celebrates Recovery From the Heart

QUALITY NOT QUANTITY – Oct. 6, 2023 - “The freedom, gratitude and grace that I found in being able to forgive myself for not being able to get sober because, ‘I’m a mom now.’ … I then found for so many other places i... Read More...

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Company Knew All About Dangerous Breathing Machines They Sold

PROFITS BEFORE PEOPLE – Sept. 27, 2023 - “Black shavings in the chamber,” said one 2011 report that was kept from the government. “Contaminated with unknown sticky substance,” noted another three years later. ... Read More...

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American Lung Association Suppresses Harm Reduction Information

WHO LET THE VAPES OUT? – Oct. 2, 2023 - Its hypocrisy concerns—as many of us, unfortunately, have also come to expect—tobacco harm reduction. The website of the American Lung Association (ALA) is peppered with... Read More...

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Sly Stone on Addiction and Aging

STILL ALIVE! – Oct. 6, 2023 - In fairness, this couldn’t have come as news. It was, he says, the fourth time in recent years he had been taken to hospital in an ambulance, suffering from breathing difficulties: the m... Read More...

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A.A.’s Step 10: A Way of Life

...WHEN WE WERE WRONG... – Oct. 5, 2023 - Character defects such as impatience, irritability, avoidance, blaming, etc., are never fully abolished, especially when we are “hungry, angry, lonely, or tired.” Humans alwa... Read More...

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Quote of the Week – Bob Dylan

“There are degrees of happiness. You go from one to the other and then back again. It’s hard to be completely happy when those around us are suffering and groaning from hunger...” – Bob Dylan ... Read More...

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How I Rewired My Brain in Six Weeks

VIDEO – REWIRED THIS! – Sept. 18, 2023 - “It’s surprisingly hard to think of nothing at all”, is one of my first thoughts as I’m lying in the maw of a machine that is scanning my brain. I was told to focus on a black... Read More...

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My Friend, the Heroin Addict

PHOTO ESSAY – Sept. 25, 2023 - Despite his heavy drug use and history of physical illness, he was able to survive on his body partly thanks to Denmark’s healthcare system, which provides several services... Read More...

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Sober Homes Promised Shelter But Some Delivered Fraud

CRIMES OF GREED – Sept. 18, 2023 - Officials assert the schemes may have cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars, while sparking wide-reaching fraud investigations, dozens of indictments, and an overhaul of bi... Read More...

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Social media Used to Reunite Native Americans with Those Caught Up in Fake Sober Homes

AUDIO – TRAVESTY – Sept. 15, 2023 - For months, fraudulent sober living homes have been targeting tribal reservations across the western U.S., including the Navajo Nation and White Mountain Apache Tribe, coercing vul... Read More...

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Decline of Non-Fatal Overdoses

GOOD NEWS (IS HARD TO FIND) – Sept. 15, 2023 - That is the good news, to be taken with a more sobering projection that Arlington County is not seeing a similar decline in fatal overdoses. As of this time last year, S... Read More...

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Addiction Treatment Clinic on Wheels

ON THE ROAD...TO RECOVERY – Sept. 15, 2023 - When asked why Addiction Treatment Services opted to add mobile unit services outside of the main hub in Traverse City, she said “it’s needed.” “People struggle ... Read More...

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Recovering Alcoholic Given $90 Bottle of Wine by Oakland Athletics as Farewell Gift

WHAT WERE THEY THINKING? – Sept. 22, 2023 - If the wine bottle wasn’t cheap compared to the other gifts Cabrera received, the gesture seemed odd considering he’s a recovering alcoholic. Cabrera, being his joking self... Read More...

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Testimonies Signal Strength of Recovery

VIDEO – TELLING IT LIKE IT IS and WAS – Sept. 29, 2023 - Mountain Comprehensive Care hosted its second ‘Recovery Rally’ with community partners. The rally gives those battling addiction access to resources and a... Read More...

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Addiction’s Common Ground: A Universal Brain Circuit Revealed

IT’S COMPLICATED – Sept. 25, 2023 - One limitation to the study is because the data came from previous studies and the findings are correlative, the authors could not conclude causation. Stubbs also noted ther... Read More...

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Decriminalizing Drugs Does NOT Lead to More Overdoses

THE OPPOSITE? – Sept. 28, 2023 - Oregon’s drug decriminalization experiment isn’t popular at the moment. Measure 110, the citizen initiative that removed serious legal penalties for all illicit drug possession and di... Read More...

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Inside the Country’s First EVER Sober House for Women

VIDEO – FRIENDLY HOUSE – Sept. 29, 2023 - September is ‘National Recovery Month’ so California Live’s Lawrence Zarian visits L.A.’s ‘Friendly House,’ a recovery facility helping women treat substance & alcohol ab... Read More...

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I Was 10 Years Old the First Time I Got Drunk. Now I’m Sober Helping Others Quit.

AS IT SHOULD BE – Sept. 27, 2023 - I certainly didn’t make things easy for my parents. By the time adolescence struck, my status as a difficult child was well-established. I rebelled at every turn. In time, I ... Read More...

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Why Mom Feels Alcohol Addiction is Misunderstood

VIDEO – SHE DIDN’T HAVE TO CRASH – Sept. 28, 2023 - “Brittany was just a very loving person,” Jenny Hallett said. “She was a straight-A student her entire life, and that was due to her own drive.” Jenny Ha... Read More...

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Celebrate Recovery Allows Addicts, Families to Share Positive Results

TOGETHER MAGIC CAN HAPPEN – Sept. 28, 2023 - The Community Paramedicine Program has been a stepping stone to recovery by providing counseling and services to families battling addiction, connecting patients to needed... Read More...

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Court Forces Sober Living Participants Out

VIDEO – OUT OF HERE – Sept. 28, 2023 - TUCSON, Ariz. (13 News) - A judge has weighed in on the struggle for sober living residents to stay at a Southside hotel and apartment complex, which isn’t good for them. O... Read More...

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AJ McLean: Two Years Sober: ‘One Hell of a Journey’

VIDEO – GROWING UP – Sept. 28, 2023 - Now he’s honouring the work he’s done for the past couple of years in getting to a healthy place mentally and physically. On 26 September, the 45-year-old music icon too... Read More...

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Strength in Sensitivity: Becoming a “Borderline” Psychotherapist

I DO, I DON’T, I WILL, I WON’T – Sept. 22, 2023 - I’m now 49 years of age, and after 22 years of psychoanalysis that is still ongoing, 13 years of which I was heavily medicated on psychotropics, I am now medication f... Read More...

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Governors Take Naloxone Training at State House

WITH JUDGMENT-FREE COMPASSION – Sept. 28, 2023 - “Overdose has touched so many Maryland families, including my own,” said Lt. Gov. Miller. “We need to create a seat at the table for everyone as we continue to ident... Read More...

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